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The Spencer County Board of Education has given the preschool a thumbs up to explore the waters of full day preschool.
The board unanimously approved a proposal at its May meeting that will allow Spencer County Preschool to offer both full and half-day classes to qualifying children. During the 2014-2015 school year, the program will offer a full day program to serve up to 20 students and 2.5 half-day classrooms serving a total of up to 100 students.

The Spencer County Fiscal Court’s budget battle will continue Thursday with both the county judge executive and two of the magistrates taking opposing positions on the issue.
Spencer County Judge Executive Bill Karrer said that the magistrate’s special called meeting on May 13 was an illegal meeting that he was not invited to. Spencer County Clerk Lynn Hesselbrock, who normally takes formal minutes during fiscal court meetings said she was also not invited to attend.

Child and teen summer reading programs
coming up
The library is holding registration for the child and teen summer reading programs starting May 24. The child reading program is on Tuesdays in June at 10:30 a.m. and the teen program is in June at 6:30 p.m.

The Spencer County Fiscal Court rejected the first reading of an ordinance pertaining to the 2014-2015 fiscal year budget by a 4-2 vote Monday. The vote came less than a week after a special meeting in which four magistrates discussed issues they had with the budget as presented.

The man facing charges for attempting to take Spencer County Jailer Darrell Herndon’s life and the life of a good samaritan has been indicted in Nelson County Circuit court and will be arraigned Thursday.
James W. Gillespie, 18, of Mount Eden, was indicted on two counts of attempted murder, third-degree assault, two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, disarming a police officer, first-degree escape, theft by unlawful taking-firearm, two counts of third-degree terroristic threatening and two counts of menacing.